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[markf2748]

Background:  With few exceptions, the Options Tree submenus (right panel) always open in a fully expanded state.  When adjusting just a few specific parameters, this action is cumbersome, especially for Option Categories which require a scrollbar hunt.  It’s often difficult to see the forest for the trees (of course the Search is a valuable help, but still...).  Currently, LMB on any submenu heading immediately collapses that submenu, which is very useful.  However the user must still march through individual submenus to close them one at a time whenever the Options Popup is reopened.

Requests:
(1) Please provide a way to easily Expand All/ Collapse All Option Submenus, on a per category basis.  It would be great to have something like MC’s main Tree, where RMB on the top level of any listed item (such as an Audio View) brings up an Expand/Collapse menu option.  In an analog for the Options Popup, RMB on a left panel category heading would bring up similar menu lines affecting the right panel display for that category.  Naturally this also begs for "Expand All" and "Collapse All", acting across all categories in one fell swoop!

(2) Once a user has set up a combination of expanded and collapsed submenus per left panel categories, MC should render that view every time the Options Popup is closed and reopened, until user modifies the display.  It's OK to fully expand most submenus (current behavior) as the default when user has not collapsed them.

Examples:  Attachments show Fully Expanded, Fully Collapsed, and Partially Expanded option submenus.  These states should be easy to set up and should be remembered.

11/24/2024 Edit the requests.

[HPBEME]

Yes yes yes 1 million times YES!

I have been wanting to submit this as a feature request for many many years now.  I always figured it would fall on deaf ears though, so never have.  But now that you have opened the door, might it happen? I am hoping that by adding my two cents, maybe others will also indicate their desire for JRiver to implement what would be a huge GUI improvement for navigating options. 

In addition to keeping the expanded/collapsed states persistent until a user manually changes it (as Mark suggested), could you include an expand all/collapse all button in the upper right corner of every page?  Using menus also obviously works, but buttons on each page would be quicker.  And honestly, MC has so many (too many) menus already, with most of those requiring navigation to submenus to activate the option you want.

That said, thank you Mark for requesting this, as it is long overdue.


FYI:  The expand all/collapse all buttons could simply use the same button images currently used to expand/collapse the playlist header, so existing skins would not require new images to support this "new" button request.

[Matt]

Coming next build:
NEW: Added an expand all and collapse all right-click menu to options pages when clicking a grouping item.